All,
Any comments? I think we could easily fill a 1/2 day with relevant
talks. Cool thing is we can plan ourselves. You don't have to write a
talk proposal 8 months prior to the conference (which I think is
ridiculous). Geronimo 2.2, OSGi Blueprint, current state of Geronimo
3.0, Plugins -- all would seem like potential talk candidates.
I'm going to plan on signing us up, later today. Will happily work on
the planning... How do others feel?
--kevan
On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
>
> This never made it over to our dev list. What are the communities
> thoughts? Seems like a great opportunity to me. There's been a
> followup email, which I'll forward in a sec. Looks like the response
> date is now Thursday the 23rd.
>
> --kevan
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:28 PM, ApacheCon 2009 US Planners Team wrote:
>
>> Project Management Committees,
>>
>> For this 10th Year of the Apache Software Foundation, the Conference
>> Planning Committee and Stone Circle Productions are infusing
>> ApacheCon
>> US 2009 with the same Community Spirit that guides our Open Source
>> Communities themselves. With the goal of creating the most successful
>> ApacheCon to-date, we are seeking the support of each ASF Community
>> to
>> help drive their content for the 3-day conference. As the PMC, we
>> invite you to come forward with content based on the needs of your
>> user community.
>>
>> First: Decide as a project, how much time you would like to fill with
>> commercially viable content. Do you need a half-day or a full-day to
>> achieve a professional, quality program? Don't restrict yourselves to
>> presentations by the PMC members or past speakers. You are likely
>> familiar with other committers, the members of your user community,
>> published authors and others who would offer effective sessions.
>> Consider involving the community in this process through either the
>> dev or users list, as appropriate for your project. Identifying the
>> exact contents and schedule of your program will come in a 2nd phase.
>>
>> Note: If you believe your track is better presented in tandem with
>> other project(s), and you would like to work together as a small
>> group
>> of related projects to create a unified track, please discuss this
>> with the other project(s) and offer one proposal you all agree upon
>> to
>> the Planners.
>>
>> Second: Identify your consumers. Please explain to the Planners, in
>> your submission, who your attendees would be. Are they web content
>> authors or developers, or backend infrastructure adopters,
>> integrators
>> or administrators? Are they technical or novice individuals,
>> management or general users?
>>
>> Third: Communicate your interest to planners-2009-us@apachecon.com no
>> later than April 21st!
>>
>> The Planners will get back to you by April 28th to share the general
>> program schedule, and where your project best fits. You will be
>> provided a mentor who will forward to you the CFP's which made the
>> first cut of talk selections. Your community will then have two weeks
>> to create a schedule on a Wiki page. Again, be creative, and keep in
>> mind there are several opportunities for content beyond the
>> programmed
>> track: MeetUps, BOFs, symposiums, un-conference style activities,
>> etc.
>>
>> In four weeks, the Planners will complete a review of the
>> programming,
>> offer final feedback, cut programming that doesn't fit into the
>> formal
>> tracks of the program, and finally attempt to fit all of the
>> programming
>> into space available. Your mentor is there to help you avoid this cut
>> and guide you in creating a professional and marketable track!
>>
>> Should a PMC choose not to participate in this process, but there
>> are still
>> compelling presentations about that particular project, the
>> Planners may
>> choose to run that track. Speaker acceptance/rejections will be
>> sent out
>> in five weeks, once all decisions are made. All projects,
>> participating
>> in this program or not, will have opportunities to get more
>> involved with
>> the conference. These will be announced over the coming months.
>>
>> We look forward to your PMC's response!
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> The ApacheCon 2009 US Planning Team
>>
>>
>>
>>
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